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Wed Jul 20 23:51:03 CEST 2011 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-July/112388.html

On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:40:17 +0200, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:12:42 -0400
> Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> > On 7/20/2011 11:41 AM, r.david.murray wrote:
> > 
> > > diff --git a/Lib/email/utils.py b/Lib/email/utils.py
> > 
> > >   # We need wormarounds for bugs in these methods in older Pythons (see below)
> > 
> > Is 'wormaround' (variation of workaround) an intentional play on the 
> > fact that some worms prey on other 'bugs' ;-? (rather then eating plant 
> > matter?)
> 
> Or perhaps worms dig their way carefully around known bugs?

Hexlify, wormaround...our Barry is just full of interesting words :)

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support roundtripping RFC2822 date stamps in the email.utils module